Книга: Windows 98: Windows 98, Internet Explorer 5, Internet Explorer 4, Drivespace, Windows Driver Model, 98lite, Microsoft Netmeeting

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Windows 98, Internet Explorer 5, Internet Explorer 4, Drivespace, Windows Driver Model, 98lite, Microsoft Netmeeting, Active Desktop, Msconfig, Windows Messaging, Scandisk, Development of Windows 98, Channel Definition Format, Chromeffects, Active Channel, Sysedit. Excerpt: Desktop of Windows Me with 98lite 98lite is a utility for Windows 98 and Windows Me written by Shane Brooks. It removes Internet Explorer components from Windows along with several operating system components that require IE to be present. 98lite was one of the first programs to provide a method for removing Internet Explorer. It was written in response to Microsoft's claim, in antitrust proceedings , that IE is integrated into Windows and cannot be removed without breaking other features. History 98lite was created by Shane Brooks in the second half on 1998 just after the original release of Windows 98 . The idea simply came out of necessity, at the time Brooks had a slower laptop computer that ran the Windows 95 operating system fine but Windows 98 was simply too slow. Brooks liked the stability Windows 98 offered as well as some of the new features but had no need for the Internet Explorer browser. The original 98lite was a simple DOS based installer that ran before the Windows 98 installation, this installer made modifications to a fresh installation of Windows preventing the installation of Internet Explorer and the Active Desktop. Installation of the first release of 98lite required the user to extract certain files from a Windows 95 disk as 98lite uses the Windows 95 shell. A second program called Shell Swap swapped the Explorer shell with the Windows 95 Explorer, which does not contain the web features of Me's and 98's Explorer and is therefore considerably faster and more lightweight, this was desig...